Improvement in papeft-files



PATENTED OCT. 22, 1861.

' T. P. YATES.

NEWSPAPER FILE m lrzesses.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS P. YATES, OF CON CORD, HAMPSHIRE.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER-FILES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 33,554, dated October 22, 1861.

.To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, THoMAs P. YATES, a' British subject, residing at Concord, in the 'copnty .of Merrimac, in the State of New Hampshire, haveinvented a new form of Folio- File,- to hold and bind newspapers, sheet-music, or other matter, so that the papers may be added as they are issued in a quick, easy, and efficient manner by the a plication to a folio-file of an elastic tape or s ring threaded into the eye-holes in two strips, joinedto- ,gether' by an expanding bellows-back, thereby *forrning a pressure (independent-otthe side covers) on the back of nearly equal pressure, whether to hold a single paper or a whole volnme in bound book-form; and I' do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

- exact description of the construction and op-- eration of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which.-

Figure 1 is a side view of the strip at the back side of the file; Fig. 2, one of the ends, showing the papers inserted; and Fig. 3, the inside showingthe loops and tapes ready to affix the papers, and also referring to the letters of reference on these said drawings.

To enable others to make and use my improved folio-file, I proceed to describe its construction and operation.

I provide two strips of metal, wood, guttapercha, or other suitable material, in each of wh'ich'I make two eye-holes. These two strips are joined together by an expanding bellows-- back, made of leather, cloth, or paper.- Gnthe inside of this expanding I back I attach any number of loops that may be required to 4 thread the papers through. Then I take an.

elastic tape or string, on each end of which is a. cutting needle of metal; This tape is threaded into the eye-holes in the front strip. Then I take a paper. and thread it through one of the loops. Then taking theneedle's I are the eye-holes J J. In the niches KK the needles rest after the papers are attached.

hangs.

showing the papers I inserted.

tapes and loops ready for the insertion of the papers. D D D are loops in which the papers are to be threaded. H A are elastic joints by which the covers 0 C are joined to-tlle back. vB B are two strips, in each of whichis cut the two eye-holcs J J. A is thebellows-back connecting the two strips '13 B together. E E are two cutting-needles, one on each end of the. tape G, to cut. through the threaded in the loops. What I claim as my invention, and desire to have secured by Letters Patent, is

The expanding bellows-back A, in combination with the elastic tapes G, cutting-needles E, and loops D, when the same are so arranged as to form a newspaper-file, substantially as above described. 4

THOMAS P. YATES. Witnesses:

DANIEL H. WILLIAMS,

BENJAMAN BICKFORD.

Jthrouglrthebackstrijgnin thecenter of which H is a hinge-joint bywhic'h the side cover C.

Fig. 2 shows one of the ends ofthe file,-

Fig.3 shows theinside of the file with the papers (in front of the loops) after they are 

